This 2014 action movie hit revived a kind of thriller that Hollywood had ignored in the age of superhero movies: simple, streamlined, driven by action scenes that rely on physical prowess rather than computer generated elements. It also turned Keanu Reeves into an unexpectedly terrific action star.
Sean Connery helped turn the James Bond spy series into a blockbuster franchise in his third outing as 007, perhaps the most iconic film in the series.
Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, and Ian McKellen provide the voices in this spirited comedy of a pet mouse who becomes a hero in a subterranean London world.
Majid Majidi’s tender and sweet 1999 story of young siblings whose loyalty to each other and joyous embrace of life help overcome their impoverished lives became the first Iranian film to earn an Oscar nomination.
Steve Martin’s tribute to shoestring filmmaking and big-screen dreams is a loving lampoon that gamely straddles the chasm between cynical con-artistry and benign innocence.
James Cameron’s scrappy, low budget time travel thriller made a star of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays an unstoppable cyborg from the future. It was a hit that launched a franchise, thanks to the triumph of energy and ingenuity over budget.
